The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs offers undergraduate
minor programs in Public Affairs, Gerontology, and in Urban and
Regional Studies. Each program offers an excellent interdisciplinary
focus on problem-solving, analysis, and serves as an entry point to
further graduate studies in law, policy, planning, and social welfare.
Undergraduate students in the minor programs gain insight into current
issues such as crime and drugs, the environment, labor policies,
national security, and policy issues related to the State of California.

Minor in Public Affairs

Applied public policy is an increasingly important element of any
modern education. The Minor in Public Affairs complements a liberal arts
or science major through a systematic examination of a broad range of
public policy issues, mainly through the analysis of specific social,
political and economic problems addressed by each of the three
departments in the School of Public Affairs: Social Welfare, Urban
Planning, and Public Policy. The underlying questions examined in our
classes range from how to design cities to reduce traffic problems, to
the complexities of the legislative process, to the problems and
challenges of eldercare, among many others.

The Public
Affairs Minor requires the completion of seven (4 unit) classes. As
shown in more detail below, the requirements for the minor have four
parts meant to be taken in more or less this order: